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Daily Archives: June 28, 2023

Muslims pray near the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount during the Eid al-Adha holiday, June 28, 2023. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

Muslims nearly 40% of Jerusalem residents

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Nearly four in 10 Jerusalemites are Muslim, statistics released Tuesday by the Central Bureau of Statistics show. Some 371,000 Muslims live in Israel's capital, making up 38% of residents, according to the figures published for...

In Arabic video, AJC explains Jewish connection to Israel

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Knowledge and compassion are “critical tools to break the cycle of perpetual conflict and mutual demonization,” Benjamin Rogers, director of Middle East and North Africa initiatives at the American Jewish Committee, told JNS. That’s why...
Robbie Keane during an Ireland-Austria match in 2013. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Irish MP blasts Robbie Keane’s move to Maccabi Tel Aviv

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An Irish politician from the extremist Sinn Féin party has criticized Robbie Keane for accepting a head coaching position with the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team. “Very very disappointing that Irish Football icon Robbie Keane...
Former prime minister Ehud Barak and retired major general Yair Golan attend a press conference in Tel Aviv on June 26, 2019. Photo by Flash90

U.S.-Israel Relations,Judea and Samaria,Science,Ariel University,BDS Movement

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Israeli police are investigating recent calls by former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and former IDF deputy chief of staff Yair Golan for civil unrest to oppose the coalition’s judicial reform initiative. The unit to...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (center) and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, April 2018. Credit: U.S. embassy in Israel.

Friedman: Biden administration is ‘embracing BDS movement’

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U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller confirmed on Monday that the United States would be freezing scientific and technological cooperation with Israeli entities in areas over the 1949 armistice line, i.e., in Judea, Samaria, the...